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Much much much more reasonable. Seriously they were about to make themselves look really stupid.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 19, 2009 -> 10:16 PM) They shouldn't boo, it's not his fault...or something like that. Blame Kenny and Ozzie, etc.

Hey they were booing Fields, I thought Sox fans only booed black players.

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ May 19, 2009 -> 09:03 PM) I would grab Gomez and throw him into an oncoming train I would help.

Dear God Fields.

BA's AB was long as s***. Followed by a nice Getz walk.

QUOTE (tommy @ May 19, 2009 -> 08:20 PM) Hawk already yapping about Gomez. It's unbearable, I will not watch Twins broadcasts because of this.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 19, 2009 -> 07:47 PM) I thought "the missing link" we were looking for was between aps and neanderthals. or neanderthals and homosapian. I thought we already found it, that's why Texsox posts

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 19, 2009 -> 03:48 PM) This is why sometimes I just keep my mouth shut and dont even bother to argue. Fro my pastor: no middle ground. He just stated the part that CAN'T be compromised on, and that's pretty much what Obama said. He's just arguing for the sake of being argumentative. I wonder what your pastor's opinion on the death penalty is? The last time I asked someone that question that opposed religious grounds he gave me the answer "innocent life to criminal life" which is not an answer unless you are actually God.

QUOTE (BearSox @ May 19, 2009 -> 03:00 PM) Since Pods hasn't been terrible in his second go around with us, I see Pods getting the majority of starts in CF and as leadoff hitter. Which means like I just said in the other thread, this means at least one DL trip.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ May 19, 2009 -> 02:59 PM) pods has been doing okay out there, i have to admit. but isn't it just a matter of time until he's injured? Does weezy have any options left? If Pods starts more than half the time I fully expect he will get at least one DL trip.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ May 19, 2009 -> 02:52 PM) Just out of curiosity, when Dweezy comes off the DL, who goes away? him or Pods, flip a coin

Again, they seem to have been banking on that perception of quality winning out by itself, but they have nothing to show for it.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 19, 2009 -> 01:45 PM) The exclusive lineup has gotten better over the past year; Ratchet & Clank, MLB The Show, SOCOM, Killzone, Infamous, LBP, MGS, Uncharted and soon MAG). I completely understand the initial flop as it was $200 more expensive and had pretty much no exclusives outside of Resistance. It has come a long ways though and just now are devs starting to harness the massive potential of the system. The PS3 flat out is capable of things that no other platform is. The price is still a bit pricey, but it's almost worth it for the Blu-Ray player alone. Depends on what version you get. It should clearly be stated if you look though. I really just don't see that this strategy helps Sony sell consoles. The Trojan-horse strategy obviously helped win the format war but it's just been dragging the PS3 down.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 19, 2009 -> 01:36 PM) Is the PS3 downward compatible (play PS2 or even PS1 games on a PS3)? Yes but you have to have the right version, I think they built cheaper models that aren't (someone correct me on this?)

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 19, 2009 -> 01:15 PM) Its down to $399. I dont get it. You are getting by far the most advanced and sophisticated gaming system, blu-ray player capabilities, internet search ability, PS store, music/video/picture storage etc...And, they are finally carrying some good exclusive series as well. Maybe it's the economy or X-Box fanboys refusing to make a switch or the Wii carving out a larger niche than expected, but I bought my PS3 when it was still $599 and I don't regret it for a second. s***ty (or maybe just overly ambitious) marketing + prohibitively expensive + limited exclusive lineup + bad economy = failure. I really thought Sony would be able to overcome it, but it's been going on years now, I don't know why they're still stalling. Maybe YOU don't regret it and I'd never fault you for that, but it's really not that simple. People won't just hop on board. I think another price drop has to happen.

I just saw, yet again, that the PS3 sales are STILL lagging behind. Ouch. This was supposed to be "the year."

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 19, 2009 -> 05:12 AM) XBox crashed on me. so I went and picked up a few SNES games. For the first time in my life, I played a Metroid game. Those are pretty fun eh. I'm a shameless Metroid fanboy. That series is f***ing awesome.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 19, 2009 -> 11:26 AM) Re: abortion, if it is so hard of a decision, and we need to educate those who are having one, and we need to preach abstinance, isn't that a clue that abortion itself is wrong, if we have to have all these issues dealt with BEFORE it ever takes place? Just a thought. I get all that, but I think it's just a dealing-in-reality kind of thing. It's like, we know we have a problem, but is supporting abstinence-only education and not allowing abortion really going to help anything? Does it send a desired message? Yes. Does it realistically accomplish anything, in the world we actually live in? No.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ May 19, 2009 -> 11:05 AM) Does Harold even WANT to be a hitting coach? Might be an important little tidbit. We are also assuming that he'd make a good hitting coach for pretty much no reason at all.

I just think it's pretty ironic that the whole revitalization thing was brought up and then Giuliani was mentioned as an alternative.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ May 19, 2009 -> 10:44 AM) Since Walk is on the hot seat you can actually do whatever you want. If a potential replacement lies within the system, then OF COURSE he needs to be discussed. OF COURSE is the key phrase here. ABSOLUTELY fills in as well. The OP is right on the money 100% in opening this dialouge, 100% dead nuts correct. Harold can't be considered because he was too good of a hitter? Someone with almost 3000 hits doesn't suck enough to teach hitting? GMAFB that he can't be discussed. I'm not a Walker supporter by any means (I'm not calling for his firing now, but I've openly discussed firing him in the past), but the entire premise of this thread doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 19, 2009 -> 09:57 AM) Ok, so I need to vent a little. The link i posted was posted on Facebook by my pastor. I wronte a comment saying basically what i said here that the title of the link and to an extent, the video was a gross misrepresentation of what Obama said. Then this was posted by someone I know: I think it's pretty obvious most of it is sarcasm. But the part I bolded is what really gets me. There ARE things we can work on together. Push adoption. Abstinence. Contraception. These are things we can work on together! Abstinence/contraception being two things that help reduce the # of unwanted pregnancies which is why we have so many abortions in the first place. I don't see why it has to be one or the other, so the abstinence-only crowd kills me. I didn't see his whole speech but I know the focus of it wasn't telling anti-abortionists to change their mind or back off, he pretty much said that at a certain point the debate is irreconcilable. He was calling for more civility and to see what can be done... things like you just said. Right now the focus is pretty much on overturning Roe v. Wade which is really unhelpful.

Eh do you want Frank Thomas teaching his unorthodox stance and swing to our prospects?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 19, 2009 -> 09:42 AM) Surprise, Obama isn't the far-left radical he's constantly painted as. In fact, the far-left is pretty pissed off at Obama and just sees him as "new boss, same as the old boss." When I read Dailykos or Huffpo commenters it just seems like they don't see or don't care about the difference between what's ideal and what's politically feasible.